Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Counterattack. At week's end, having successfully sabotaged Saud's attempt at mediation, the Russians had the Syrian issue back before the U.N. Assembly, where they hoped to extract a maximum of propaganda mileage from their charges against Turkey. But in one of his best speeches, U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge launched a biting counterattack that left Gromyko sulking in his chair...
...Hugh is a brother of Ipswich's new Labor M.P. Dingle Foot and left-wing Laberite Michael Foot, editor of Aneurin Beva.i's Tribune. Tall, shrewd, Cambridge-trained Sir Hugh has served in posts ranging from Nigeria (where a terrorist slashed his jacket in an assassination attempt) to Palestine (where both Arabs and Jews considered him a friend). He is favorably remembered in Cyprus as a World War II civilian official who was liked by both Greeks and Turks. In his six years in Jamaica, he has been a key figure in the island's move toward...
...role as the ears of a deaf father, mother and brother. It unfolded like a mystery story, beginning with the girl's arrival at a hospital psychiatric ward, developing as the staff ferreted out the causes of her malady, reaching a high pitch of suspense with an attempt to make her hear again through the ingenious use of a lie detector and the shock of an emotional confrontation. Under Sidney (Twelve Angry Men) Lumet's direction, the play combined compassion and extraordinary visual impact in scenes in which the mute father and mother flung their feelings into sign...
PENN-TEXAS REBELS, trying to oust Leopold Silberstein as president, will go to court to open up holding company's books. Rebels expect to prove heavy losses to be a result of Silberstein's attempt to take over Fairbanks, Morse & Co., and that company does not have enough cash to meet its bills. Meanwhile, Penn-Texas reported third-quarter earnings of only 1? a share...
...young Sunday-go-to-meetin' sort of feller who has just been chosen sheriff, and who discovers to his horror that there is more to the job than wearing a tin star. The story develops as the oldtimer, much against his will, is drawn by sympathy into an attempt to teach the young comer how to be a proper lawman-before he becomes a dead...